Inge Habig

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Inge Elisabeth Habig (*19). October 1923 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † December 11, 2022 in Herdecke a.d. Ruhr was a German art historian and university teacher.

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Inge Habig came from the marriage of legal scholar Walter Bappert with his wife Therese, born Schikorski. After attending the Girls' Higher Real School St. Ursula in Freiburg and Abitur in 1941 at the Hindenburg Girls' Higher Real School in Freiburg, she performed a war assistance service. After the end of the war, she studied art history and classical archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, among others with Hans Jantzen, Walter Paatz, Kurt Bauch, Ernst Buschor and Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt. In Freiburg she completed a doctoral degree in Christian Archaeology with Josef Sauer; In 1949 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil.

On 4 October 1949 she married the printing company Heinrich Habig in Herdecke. Three children came out of this marriage. After the death of her husband in 1963, she studied from spring 1965 to December 1966 at the Ruhr Pedagogical College in Dortmund. After completing the first state examination (1967) and the second state examination (1969) she worked as a teacher. She completed a part-time postgraduate study with art history, Christian archaeology and pedagogy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University with Georg Kauffmann, Bernhard Kötting and Rudolf Lassahn and was habilitated in Münster in 1971 with the writing Eucharistic Allegory in the late Baroque north of the Alps: Phenomenology of dogmatic, apologetic, catechetical and devotional pictorial elements of an ecclesiastical allegory.

In 1973 she was appointed University Professor in Art and Her Didactics at the University of Dortmund. In 1989 she was retired. She has published several books and numerous articles and essays, mostly on core topics of architecture, school construction and the art exhibition.

From 1984 to 2007 she was speaker of the Art History Seminary of the Catholic Academy Schwerte. She was a member of the Society for the Advancement of the Swords Catholic Academy for over 30 years, from 1988 to 2005 as chairman, and engaged in the working committee of the Catholic Academy. On several occasions, Habig was represented in the jury of the Art and Culture Prize of German Catholics. In 1994 she was appointed to the Art Advisory Board of the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation. In 1984 she was founding president of the Hagener Club Soroptimist International.

In 1966, Inge Habig was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant as Lady of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and invested on February 22, 1966 in the Cologne Cathedral by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger, Grand Prior of the German governorate. She was a Komtur lady with Star of the Order. She was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land and was involved in numerous social projects in Israel, Palestine (Gaza Strip)